Ithake

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἰθάκη (Ithákē).

Proper noun

Ithake

  1. Alternative form of Ithaca: an island of the Ionian Sea, Greece.
    • 1984, “Greeks in Australia”, in John Shaw, editor, Collins Australian Encyclopedia, Sydney, N.S.W.: Collins; David Bateman, →ISBN, page 299, column 3:
      Andreas Lekatsas from Ithake is recorded as the first of these Greeks to jump ship; he stayed in Australia for 20 years.
    • 2002, Daniel Mersey, “Achilles: Hero of The Iliad”, in Legendary Warriors: Great Heroes in Myth and Reality, London: Brassey’s, →ISBN, page 59:
      He [Odysseus] was the king of Ithake, the husband of Penelope and the father of Telemachos.
    • 2006, Andrew Dalby, “Introduction”, in Rediscovering Homer, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page xx:
      At the point where the Odyssey begins, Telemachos is about twenty and is sharing his absent father’s house on the island of Ithake with his mother, Penelope, […]
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